During one of my sporadic comment rescues, I came across the following query from North (sorry it took so long to find it, amigo): Russell on the subject of possibly krank products, though possibly this is only loosely related, could… Continue Reading
Oh, Huffington Post. HuffPo, HuffPo, HuffPo. I don’t mean to pick on you, even though it may seem like it lately. But what am I supposed to do when you give me such great material? The other day, out of… Continue Reading
Over at Flower & Thistle, brother-blogger Elias has an occasional “What ____ Said” feature wherein he passes on wisdom from others with little further embellishment. I’m stealing his bit. Emily at The Biology Files has written a wonderful, detailed take-down… Continue Reading
I think Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick is a terrific writer. Along with NaPP’s own Burt Likko, she’s the writer whose legal analysis I find most reliably informative and enjoyable to read. Which is why a glaring instance of sloppiness is so… Continue Reading
A little while ago, Jaybird expressed an interest in the stuff I find boring and commonplace. As we are on the cusp of my busy season, wherein I see patient after patient after patient with the same litany of cold… Continue Reading
I am prone to muscle spasms in my chest and shoulders. Every so often I’ll wake up with a twinge somewhere, and it always evolves into one side of my upper body going out of whack for a day. This… Continue Reading
Once, long ago, I decided that I would one day read Proust. I had some vague notion that doing so would mean one was truly “well-read,” and being considered well-read was one of those things that seemed important. (“Not being… Continue Reading
Last night I went looking on the Internet for an old friend from medical school. After a couple of minutes with Google, I was able to find her faculty page with the children’s hospital in the city where we went… Continue Reading
Over at Slate, Farhad Manjoo has one of those irritating, self-consciously counter-intuitive essays that seem to define the site. He goes after pediatricians for our advice about television for toddlers, which he thinks (according to his subheader) doesn’t make sense. … Continue Reading
but I have to work, I’m going to post something frivolous about a professional pet peeve. Parents of the world, take note! If your reason for bringing your child in for an appointment is a skin lesion, and the lesion… Continue Reading